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- Patients undergoing radiation therapy for cancer often suffer nausea, vomiting and extreme fatigue, which could be mitigated by therapies that are being developed for astronauts exposed to space radiation.
- Therapeutic interventions for acute radiation sickness could benefit people exposed to considerably higher-than-normal levels of radiation in the environment, such as those exposed to radiation from a nuclear power plant accident or terrorist activities.
- The process of miniaturizing real-time radiation detectors for humans in space can have a direct benefit in applications with complex forms of radiation, such as those occurring near high-energy particle accelerators and nuclear reactors. The portable nature and the alarm capabilities of these detectors could be invaluable to first responders arriving at the site of an accident or terrorist activity involving radiation exposure.
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